Cyclone Events Management have brought something very special to Oswestry this month with its latest offering, we bring you our FESTEVIL Drive-Thru scare maze 2020 review.
Originally planned in Wrexham until lockdown stopped the event going ahead the team packed up the entire event and shipped it over the border so they could put on a great show for the public and a great show it was!
Within your car you drove through various scenes, pulled up to a traffic light system, turned your engine off and watched as scenes unfolded around your vehicle.
Warning – Your vehicle will get dirty / struck!
As you enter these very detailed sets indeed you park up as characters hit your car, throw things over your car and scare the living daylights out of you.
I was surprised by how hard some of the actors were hitting the vehicle we were in so if you’re in a new car or a car with matte paint especially, this event is certainly not one for you!
From driving through a graveyard, to driving through Area 69 you really do explore it all!
Every scene is brilliantly done and makes the car you’re in feel ten times smaller than normal, almost claustrophobic as creatures surround your vehicle.
Flaming cars and lighting effects aplenty you were fully immersed into this wonderfully unique and socially distanced event.
I was impressed with the level of detail on the costumes, the masks especially looked beautifully hand made and crafted and considerably stepped up in the event in quality.
Such simple uses of strobe lighting made some of the scenes truly terrifying and the grand finale inside a huge circus big top is a wonderful wink and nod to a famous cinematic clown.
With the event being socially distanced we were pointing out things we would or could have done differently had there been more actors around.
A purge scene for example had one man walking off a bus and coming over to our car.
A whole bus full of crazy Purge hooligans surrounding your car would have been much more effective.
The weakest scene of them all was a doll scene. Whilst the music was create and a simple little vanishing doll effect drew your attention the final scare was a little cheap compared to the others that felt as though time and effort has been put into creating them.
Festevil is not for the faint of heart and it was great to drive-thru some of my favourite movie scenes.
The event truly care about their fans and you can see the creators are fans themselves as everything was meticulously done.
Turn the doll scene into a full Annabelle style Warren museum with various artefacts lining the sides of the drive-thru and that scene would have been improved massively.
Don’t miss out!
For more reviews on Lift Hills and Thrills CLICK HERE
